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ID 54657 Views: 454 Photo Comments: 0	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	Goodyear Goodyear Aerospace GZ-20A	Akron Suffield - Wingfoot Lake Airship Operations Airport (4OH6) USA - Ohio, August 30, 2011	Tom Quinn Contact
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	N3A (cn 4118) N3A and N2A in the hangar for 100 hour maintenance.

ID 54656 Views: 422 Photo Comments: 0	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	Goodyear Goodyear Aerospace GZ-20A	Akron Suffield - Wingfoot Lake Airship Operations Airport (4OH6) USA - Ohio, June 13, 2011	Tom Quinn Contact
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	N3A (cn 4118) N3A moored inside the hangar at 4OH6.

ID 54655 Views: 431 Photo Comments: 0	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	Goodyear Goodyear Aerospace GZ-20A	Akron Suffield - Wingfoot Lake Airship Operations Airport (4OH6) USA - Ohio, May 19, 2011	Tom Quinn Contact
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	N3A (cn 4118) N3A sits in the hangar, viewed through the roll up door separating the parts storage "low bay" from hangar bay.

ID 54654 Views: 421 Photo Comments: 0	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	Goodyear Goodyear Aerospace GZ-20A	Akron Suffield - Wingfoot Lake Airship Operations Airport (4OH6) USA - Ohio, June 24, 2010	Tom Quinn Contact
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	N3A (cn 4118) N3A rests after a long day of passenger rides at 4OH6. The "C Watch" crew loads ballast bags and completes necessary end of the day duties. Someone is always with the airship, 24/7 365, checking hourly helium pressure readings, static weight adjustments, temperature and weather readings, visual inspections, and helium purity measurements.

ID 54148 Views: 441 Photo Comments: 0	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	Goodyear Goodyear Aerospace GZ-20A	Akron Suffield - Wingfoot Lake Airship Operations Airport (4OH6) USA - Ohio, March 18, 2011	Tom Quinn Contact
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	N3A (cn 4118) N3A circles while waiting for the ground crew to move into position for landing.

ID 54146 Views: 500 Photo Comments: 1	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	Goodyear Goodyear Aerospace GZ-20A	Somerset County Airport (2G9) United States, October 11, 2012	Tom Quinn Contact
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	N3A (cn 4118) N3A is moored for an overnight stop at 2G9 before heading to Republic Airport in NY to cover MLB playoff baseball.

ID 54145 Views: 423 Photo Comments: 0	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	Goodyear Goodyear Aerospace GZ-20A	Oshkosh - Wittman Regional Airport (OSH/KOSH) USA - Wisconsin, July 28, 2010	Tom Quinn Contact
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	N3A (cn 4118) N3A approaches for landing at Pioneer Airport as the crew lines up to assist. The airship was operating out of Pioneer Airport during EAA Air Venture Oshkosh 2010.

ID 54142 Views: 421 Photo Comments: 0	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	Goodyear Goodyear Aerospace GZ-20A	Akron Suffield - Wingfoot Lake Airship Operations Airport (4OH6) USA - Ohio, August 30, 2011	Tom Quinn Contact
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	N3A / N2A (cn 4118) Akron based N3A (front) sits in hangar with Florida based N2A (rear).

ID 54141 Views: 414 Photo Comments: 0	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	Goodyear Goodyear Aerospace GZ-20A	Akron Suffield - Wingfoot Lake Airship Operations Airport (4OH6) USA - Ohio, September 15, 2010	Tom Quinn Contact
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	N3A (cn 4118) N3A in for the night at Goodyear's Wingfoot Lake Airship Base.

ID 54140 Views: 414 Photo Comments: 0	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	Goodyear Goodyear Aerospace GZ-20A	Akron Suffield - Wingfoot Lake Airship Operations Airport (4OH6) USA - Ohio, September 15, 2010	Tom Quinn Contact
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	N3A (cn 4118) N3A in hangar at blue hour at Goodyear's Wingfoot Lake Airship Base.

ID 54135 Views: 535 Photo Comments: 1	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	Goodyear Goodyear Aerospace GZ-20A	Akron Suffield - Wingfoot Lake Airship Operations Airport (4OH6) USA - Ohio, August 30, 2011	Tom Quinn Contact
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	N3A / N2A (cn 4118) A rarity of two Goodyear Blimps in the hangar at the same time. N3A and N2A.

ID 54134 Views: 486 Photo Comments: 1	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	Goodyear Goodyear Aerospace GZ-20A	Akron Suffield - Wingfoot Lake Airship Operations Airport (4OH6) USA - Ohio, August 30, 2011	Tom Quinn Contact
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	N3A (cn 4118) Akron based N3A (The Spirit of Goodyear) (front) is joined by Florida based N2A (rear) in the hangar at 4OH6. N2A was up for maintenance and avoiding hurricanes in the south. N2A (The Spirit of Innovation) is now temporarily registered as N4A and based in Carson, California as the last remaining GZ20A airship.

ID 54133 Views: 407 Photo Comments: 0	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	Goodyear Goodyear Aerospace GZ-20A	Akron Suffield - Wingfoot Lake Airship Operations Airport (4OH6) USA - Ohio, August 24, 2012	Tom Quinn Contact
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	N3A (cn 4118) The Spirit of Goodyear N3A exits the hangar at Wingfoot Lake, in preparation for departure for a two week trip for passenger rides and television events in Arkansas.

ID 42522 Views: 461 Photo Comments: 0	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	Goodyear Goodyear Aerospace GZ-20A	Off Airport (Akron) USA - Ohio, September 29, 2013	Sam Legarth Contact
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	N3A (cn 4118) Heading back to base.

ID 41512 Views: 451 Photo Comments: 0	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	Goodyear Goodyear Aerospace GZ-20A	Cleveland - Burke Lakefront (BKL/KBKL) USA - Ohio, August 15, 2013	E. Jones Contact
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	N3A (cn 4118) A United 737 inbound for CLE passes over BKL well above the Spirit of Goodyear.

ID 41511 Views: 427 Photo Comments: 0	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	Goodyear Goodyear Aerospace GZ-20A	Cleveland - Burke Lakefront (BKL/KBKL) USA - Ohio, August 15, 2013	E. Jones Contact
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	N3A (cn 4118) The Spirit of Goodyear circling over downtown for one of the Browns pre-season games.

ID 35848 Views: 503 Photo Comments: 1	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	Goodyear Goodyear Aerospace GZ-20A	Oshkosh - Wittman Regional Airport (OSH/KOSH) USA - Wisconsin, July 28, 2012	Craig Maternowski Contact
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	N3A (cn 4118) The Goodyear blimp flying over the EAA Airventure on a beautiful Saturday morning.

ID 35727 Views: 587 Photo Comments: 0	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	Goodyear Goodyear Aerospace GZ-20A	Akron Suffield - Wingfoot Lake Airship Operations Airport (4OH6) USA - Ohio, August 3, 2012	Doug McElroy Contact
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	N3A (cn 4118) Ground crew finishing getting the blimp in position for us to go for a ride.

ID 35726 Views: 718 Photo Comments: 2	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	Goodyear Goodyear Aerospace GZ-20A	Inflight () USA - Ohio, August 3, 2012	Doug McElroy Contact
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	N3A (cn 4118) This is me getting some time flying in the left seat of the Goodyear blimp. A lot different than the E145, but definitely a blast. This picture was taken by my wife.

ID 35725 Views: 568 Photo Comments: 1	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	Goodyear Goodyear Aerospace GZ-20A	Akron Suffield - Wingfoot Lake Airship Operations Airport (4OH6) USA - Ohio, August 3, 2012	Doug McElroy Contact
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	N3A (cn 4118) On final approach with the ground crew waiting for us.